Little Aliens
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A good fit for
- Readers who want to know early twentieth-century American popular short stories
- Those interested in American immigrant themes and urban daily-life writing
- Readers who need light English public-domain reading for practice
- Readers studying Myra Kelly's work or contemporary women authors
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting a full-length plot and strong dramatic conflict
- Beginners who need a Chinese translation or detailed annotations
- Readers with little interest in early American social background
Reading tips
- Read one piece first to feel the rhythm of the language, then decide whether to read straight through.
- Note colloquial dialogue and immigrant accents in the characters' speech to sense the flavor of the era.
- Compare with other early twentieth-century American short stories in subject and technique.
- Use the e-book search function to locate keywords for thematic browsing.
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Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Myra Kelly (1875–1910) was an Irish-American teacher and writer. Born in Dublin, she moved to New York as a child and later taught for many years in New York public schools, an experience that became the main source of her writing. Drawing on the lives of immigrant children on the East Side, she wrote story collections such as Little Citizens: The Humours of School Life, Little Aliens, and New Faces. Her writing is humorous and sympathetic, deftly capturing how immigrant children spoke and felt as they adjusted to a new environment. Theodore Roosevelt once praised her work in a letter, and her stories found a readership in the United States of her time. She died of tuberculosis in Torquay, England, in 1910, only in her mid-thirties, and her writing career was brief. Public information about her education, her specific teaching posts, and the sales of her books is limited; what is known of her life comes mainly from her works and scattered records.
